Hmmm. Local veggies in season and whatever a hunter/gatherer can bring back.
Doesn’t seem to lead to a consistent chain of restaurants from sea to sea.
Pigs and cows came from the old world. Before 1492 those tamales contained insects. No, I’m not kidding.
True.
Native to the Americas – but not all to North America: beans (except favas and soy), peppers, chilies, tomatoes, avocados, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava root, pineapple, maize corn; bison, elk, deer, turkey, jutía(a kind of large rodent), chihuahua dogs.
NOT native to the Americas: soybeans, garbanzos, yams(not the same thing as sweet potatoes), wheat, rye, barley, rice, all citrus; cows, domesticated sheep/goats, domesticated swine.